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Goodwill Week May 5-11
National observance of Goodwill Week this year
will come during the period May 5-11. Founded
at the turn of the Century, Goodwill Industries to
day has built the largest network of private voca
tional, educational agencies in the world serving
all types of handicapped people. There are now
136 autonomous Goodwill Industries, 42 branch
workshops in 178 cities in the United States and
another 22 located abroad.
The purpose of Goodwill remains the same--
to rehabilitate disabled lives and limbs. In re
cent years, the emphasis on the idea of service
has been greatly expanded. Os the 80,000 people
being helped by Goodwill some 50,000 receive
the traditional job opportunity and experience. But,
half of these persons are also being helped by addi-
What’s Wrong With Profits?
Nothing, if you are sharing them!
Did you ever stop to think how many ways we
all share in profits? Profits can be referred to
as the leaven in the bread. They are the unseen
force causing growth and bettering human wel
fare.
Profits go into research and development from
which emerges the new and wonderful products
that are ours. Profits combine with individual
savings to finance the building of new plants which
in turn offer additional employment.
But profits do something else. They are used to
Georgia’s Tufted Carpet Industry
During the past decade, the manufacturing of
tufted carpets has come to be Georgia’s fastest
growing industry, and one of the outstanding growth
areas of business in the United States, according
to The Atlanta Constitution. Over half of all
carpets produced in the United States are made
in Georgia.
A number of significant events have blended
to form the foundation for the dramatic expansion
of what is now a billion dollar industry. As
the story goes, Catherine Evans of Dalton (Ga.)
developed the tufting process in 1895. By sewing
cotton yarn along a pattern and cutting the stitches
as they came through the cloth, she obtained
interesting “tufted" bedspread designs. For
half a century following the introduction of this
process, very little was done to advance the state
of the art. Then, in the years 1948 to 1950,
the technological development of the tufting process
advanced so rapidly that it could well be re
garded as an industrial phenomenon.
Poetry In A Pailroad Train
i
The 19th Century poet, Joaquin Miller, is quoted
as saying: ". . . There is more poetry in the
rush of a single railroad train across the continent
than in all the gory story of burning Troy . .
What a comparison--one of death and destruction,
the other of moving, life-preserving activity across
three thousand miles of country.
It was 100 years ago that the Golden Spike
was driven in Utah connecting two pioneer rail
roads from the East and the West to complete
the first transcontinental rail line. This followed
the hardy pioneers of the 40’sand50’s who crossed
the plains in their ox and horse drawn wagons.
Connecting the two rail lines was equivalent to
opening a new continent for settlement. It pro
vided an outlet for the products of farms, mines
and industry.
Just as the rail lines pioneered in unlimited
transportation for the mass movement of products
and people in the formative period of our nation,
Removing The Mystery
Back in the days when people were shouting
get a horse, some fantastic tales were spread
about tiie dangers to healtli, life and property
inherent in that new invention, the horseless
carriage. Auto salesmen had a hard time over
coming fear of the unknown. Much tiie same
thing lias been iiappening in recent years in con
nection with the development of nuclear powered
electric generating plants. A number of nuclear
projects have been delayed or blocked because of
unwarranted fear of explosion or radiation.
An interesting example of how one electric
company in Georgia is acclimating the citizens
of its area to the prospect of a new nuclear
plant lias been described in news reports which
tell of how the power company invited a group
of local citizens to fly to New York State to visit
a similar nuclear installation built by a major
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pay you for the use of your money. Whether you
■ have provided money directly through the pur
> chase of securities or indirectly through your own
i ership of a bank account, shares in a savings and
loan association, credit union or pension fund or the
purchase of insurance, your money is at work and
payment must be made for its use. This is done
by the payment of interest and dividends.
Profits are the secret of the American system.
What’s wrong with profits? Nothing, as long as
> you are sharing them.
Machines resembling a giant sewing machine,
with some 1,500 needles in a row, were developed.
This process, it was discovered, could produce
high-quality “tufted” broadloom carpets much
faster and at a much lower cost than the tradi
tional weaving looms.
Thus, “tufting,” as it is known today, had its
beginning in 1951, and, in that year, produced
9 per cent of the total square-yard output. By
1964, the highly automated tufting process had
come to dominate the carpet industry and claimed
86 per cpnt of the total market for carpets.
While the weaving process is still used for cer
tain designs, it appears that the woven segment
of the carpet market will have only a small
part, say 5 per cent of all carpets.
Georgia’s carpet fame came in the area of
tufted carpets as opposed to the woven variety.
Dalton remains the center of the industry, and
a number of other plants are located in Rome,
Cartersville, Chamblee, and Atlanta.
so are they pioneering today with space age and
automation techniques that were not dreamed of
a few years ago. Their constant effort is for
better service at the lowest possible cost. It
would indeed be a person of no imagination who
failed to get a thrill as he watched a 100-car
freight train thunder by loaded with all manner
of products destined for every corner of the nation
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada
to the Gulf.
Yes indeed, Joaquin Miller was right when he
said, ". . . There is more poetry in the rush of
a single railroad train across the continent than
in all the gory story of burning Troy . . .” It
is time our lawmakers and regulators awakened
to the fact that our railroads are operating in
a competitive transportation world that did not
exist when the pattern of regulatory policies were
established in the earlier days of railroading.
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tional evaluation, counseling, psychological and
medical care and therapy. In 1967 the 50,000
employed handicapped persons earned $37 million
instead of living on charity from friends or rela
tives, or on a dole from government agencies.
They paid a total tax bill of $3.5 million.
But, the importance of Goodwill Industries can
not be measured in money alone. Its most im
portant contribution to the nation’s life lies in
what it gives to those it helps in terms of hope,
self-respect and a chance to build productive, in
teresting lives. The spirit of initiative and self
help represented by this fine organization is ex
emplary. This nation could use large doses of
the same spirit in the running of more of its
affairs.
utility company there. The trip helped allay any
possible fears. The nuclear plant visited by the
Georgia group generates 285,000 kilowatts of elect
ricity and is within a mile of 2,700 school children.
As one official pointed out, if there was the slight
est worry about radiation, those children wouldn’t
be there.
In another 30 years or so, at least 50 per cent
of the electrical power generated in this country
will come from nuclear reactors. Unfortunately,
unlike the horseless carriage, a nuclear power
plant cannot be driven around the country for
demonstration purposes. When necessary, a good
alternative is to do as the power company in Georgia
has done--take a representative group of customers
to the power plants—even though it means a trip
of hundreds of miles.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
As>oci«t« Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advertising Manager
Entered at the Post Office
at Covington. Georgia, as
mail matter of the Second
Class.
OLR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
THE WISDOM OF
SELF-CONTROL
(TEMPERANCE)
Devotional Reading: Proverbs
16:22-32.
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
What’s Wrong with Drinking?
Memory Selection: Wine is
a mocker, strong drink a braw
ler; and whoever is led astray
by it is not wise. Proverbs
20:1.
Young People - Adult To
pic: The Wisdom of Self-Con
trol.
Self-control lies at the basis
of moral character. If one is
not able to say No to himself
in the face of evil temptation
or to say Yes to himself as he
stands before the opportunity to
choose right over wrong, then the
possibility of strong and con
trolled moral character is lack
ing. In fact, it is essentially
lacking.
The Book of Proverbs deals
chiefly with the subject of wis
dom. And what is wisdom? Is
it mere information? Many peo
ple have plenty of information,
sometimes on a number of sub
jects, yet they do not have wis
dom, for wisdom is the capacity
to use information. Education
and good character should go to
gether, but this is not always
the case. Sometimes people very
learned in one or more fields
lack the capacity to use their
information in the living of a
good life. Either they lack the
capacity or they do not for some
reason use such capacity.
The topic of the Sunday School
lesson this week is "Hie Wis
dom of Self-Control.” It puts
together things that belong to
gether and separates things that
are different and contradictory.
Learning and self-indulgence are
contradictory and need to be so
regarded. Wisdom and self
control fit into each other, im
plement each other, support each
other, and bring the power of
wisdom to bear on the living of
a good life.
“Wine is a mocker strong
drink a brawler; and whosoever
is led astray by it is not wise.”
Tbis memory selection for to
day’s lesson sums up the teach
ing of the Book of Proverbs with
reference to drinking. The best
that can be said about the cus
tom of partaking of alcoholic
beverages is that they frequently
anesthetize one to the sense of
trial, frustration, and pain which
arises frequently in the living of
our everyday life. But this relief
is temporary. Usually it is fol
lowed by a reaction which does
two things. In the first place,
it returns one to a discomfort
perhaps even distress-which is
worse than the mistaken person
tried to cure by the use of al
cohol. Furthermore, the ques
tion underlying the distressing
situation remains unsolved and
the question or the pain, or both,
are back again more distressing
than ever.
The verb "to mock” means a
number of things, chief among
which are to deceive, delude,
counterfeit. Wine was practic
ally the only intoxicating bever
age known to the ancient world.
All that is said about wine be
comes considerably more imper
ative for persons living in the
twentieth century because the
” Was It Worth Doing ?”
By DR. MURIAL B. WILLIAMS
English Department
LaGrange College
In the times referred to by
the amused ans sophisticated as
"the quaint old days,” there
were three cardinal principles
of criticism observed by profes
sionals and drilled into the young
student as he made his way into
the world of literature and mo
vies as an apprentice judge of
their merit: What was the art
ist trying to do? How well did
he succeed? and WAS IT WORTH
DOING?
The third of these criteria has
been, apparently, lost in the whirl
which we characteristically and
proudly describe nowadays as
"progress” and "enlighten
ment.” In fact, there is con
siderable confusion about the
first—what any artist of the new
enlightened age is attempting.
But there is certainly plenty of
attention devoted to: How well
did he do it?
There is an obsession to do
and to do it superbly. More and
more writers are adept in nar
rative technique and say less
and less with greater and great
er skill. Almost every movie
flashed on the screen is a mas
terpiece of technicolor confection
or a maze of experimental ef
fects, so that the viewer is en
grossed in surprise after sur
prise executed in color and start
ling angle, shock after shock
achieved through daring dialogue.
The same general statements can
be extended to the use of mu
sical effects.
The average response to this
obsession with technique is that
the reader/movie - goer fre
quently comes away from book
or film with the realization that
he has been "entertained,” but
he doesn’t remember exactly
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so-called hard liquors, such as
whisky, brandy, gin, and vodka,
are very much more potent in
alcoholic content than was the
wine of antiquity, or even the
wine of today.
Let no one think that he can
solve any problem by even a
moderate use of any alcoholic
beverage. One cannot drink him
self from darkness to light, from
distress to happiness. Alcohol
temporarily anesthetizes the
drinker to certain things that
may be giving him distress-phy
sical pain, disappointment, or a
sense of personal unworthiness,
but the relief is temporary, with
the return of the problem more
poignant than before.
The whole truth of the matter
is that one is not wise who al
lows himself to be deceived by
the blandishments of liquor.
Drinking gets us nowhere except
on that slippery slide that may
land us with seriously impaired
powers to a decidedly lower al
titude. Usually the decline is
gradual. Sometimes it is suf
ficiently precipitous to constitute
real tragedy. And deceit is part
and parcel of the whole mistaken
situation.
Alcohol simply cannot deliver
the goods and the quicker we
find it out, the better. One
never drinks himself to suc
cess and strength of character.
All drinkers, fortunately, are not
ruined by their drinking. But
no one is benefited except in
a superficial manner and to a
temporary degree.
Many fine people drink moder
ately, but they are not made
finer or more sufficient by their
drinking. They are to be com
mended for their moderation,
but they are dealing with a dan
gerous commodity when they deal
with beverage alcohol. It may
bring the best-intentioned per
sons to discomfort, distress, or
even to the destruction of life’s
most precious values.
This is indeed a possibility.
It is a probability of sufficient
menace to alert the truly wise
person to a sense of danger.
"Be not among the winebib
bers; among riotous eaters of
flesh.”
This is the Old Testament in
junction that we avoid situations
that will tempt us to indulgence
and dissipation. It has been
found that the greatest factor con
tributing to alcoholism is the
continued availability of liquor.
If one has it about all the time
he easily falls into indulgent ha
bits. This does not mean that
everyone who goes with a drink
ing crowd becomes an alcoholic
or a problem drinker. It does
mean, however, that one out of
every ten persons who starts
to drink ends up an alcoholic.
The risk is too great for any
truly wise person to take. One
of the best ways to avoid temp
tation is to avoid persons and
situations that may lead one into
temptation. The only absolutely
sure way of avoiding alcoholism
is not to partake of beverage
alcohol. If we do not start to
drink we do not lay ourselves
open to the evil possibilities that
may follow drinking. The con
tention taken on the pages of
this commentary is that total
abstinence constitutes the only
absolutely sure safeguard against
circumstances and conditons that
may follow drinking.
why.
A striking example of this
kind of effect is the current
much-touted "The Graduate,”
notable, like its typical prede
cessors, for its high ratio of
Academy-Award nominations. It
is slickly done, expertly acted,
very funny rot. For these rea
sons it will wow its audiences.
If one raises even a timid
objection to its phony content,
the enthusiasts will defend its
"truth,” its "honesty,” its "sa
tiric humor.” This truth and
honesty consists of dialogue only
a little short of the all-time low
set by "Who’s Afraid of Vir
ginia Woolf?” and depravity of
the aging-female-friend-of-the
family-seduces-the-son variety.
For the modern pot-boiler,
book and/or film, aimed at the
nation’s pocketbook, "truth”and
"honesty” are inevitably, and
sadly, equated with depravity and
vulgar language.
And in the overwhelming com
pulsion for laughter, we seem
to have lost sight of the true
function of satire, which is to
ridicule man’s follies. Nowa
days it doesn’t matter what we
ridicule-we’re rarely certain
what it is we’re laughing at.
Nevertheless, we join in hyena
like laughter for laughter’s sake,
and thus our laughter rarely
has any therapeutic value.
Not the most timid nor the
most adamant of the quaint folk
will deny that "the ugly truth”
has always existed. In the quaint
old times, however, it was more
accurately portrayed as the ex
ceptional rather than the nor
mal-and the desirable. It was
exhibited as a peep-show at
traction in the carnival tent.
The carnival is going out of
business. The scantily attired
peep-show has made its way
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Dear Editor:
In this troubled world it seems
that bad things overshadow all
the good and we forget to see
the good people that are our
neighbors.
There is such a good neighbor
in our Almon Community, Mrs.
Charlie Whitten (Miss Ina to us).
She has done a wonderful ser
vice for our community.
I understand that around
eighteen (18) years ago she start
ed a flower club here in Almon
and has really put her heart
and soul in it to keep it going.
The twelve years that I have
known her she certainly has done
a wonderful job.
At times, I’m sure she gets
very discouraged, but she carries
on in her humane and congenial
way. She expects no praise nor
credit, but she surely deserves
it. She shows no preference, her
club rules comply to everyone
alike. She is very grateful to
the people who cooperate with
her.
We, the .Almon people should
be very proud of Miss Ina, we
need more people that will work
for the good of our community
as she has done for eighteen
long years and not giving up.
Besides being the originator
of the "Flower Club” here she
is also our "softball” official
"scorekeeper” and also a seam
stress.
We should show our apprecia
tion of "Miss Ina” by being re
sponsive without her having to
ask as it is almost impossible
for her to contact everyone. Let’s
help her to stay ahead in the
"Till”.
Mrs. Lawson
SEN. PENNINGTON
AT THE CAPITOL
The weeks and months that
follow the adjournment of the
General Assembly every year
are filled with newspaper
stories citing statistics and facts
of every kind imaginable. They
run all the way from the num
bers of times various commit
ties had to meet to consider one
bill or the number of pieces of
legislation considered during the
Session to the quantity of milk
consumed by the legislators of
the Senate and House during their
stay in Atlanta.
One of the first things many
of the newsmen covering the Cap
itol beat rush to total up is the
voting record of the different
members..or rather the number
of votes the members miss on
different bills and resolutions.
The newspapers are flooded with
stories of how many times some
one was missing when a bill—
particularly one affecting his dis
trict or the state as a whole—
came up for a vote. Voting re
cords, compiled on the basis of
how many times someone voted
rather than whether or not the
vote was conservative, moderate
or liberal, are spread far and
wide if someone was missing, but
little coverage is given to those
who were constantly in attend
ance.
The public is well-informed on
votes missed but never of the
votes cast. Very few people are
ever made aware of the fact
that in the Senate, for instance,
over 3,700 votes were taken dur
ing the recent Session. Hie
majority of these votes were hand
votes with the roll call votes on
which most of the statistical
"exposes” are based constitut
ing only a small portion of the
overall voting picture.
For every rule, there must be
an exception, and Senator Brooks
Pennington of Madison, Georgia,
seems to be the exception this
year.
Senator Pennington, repre
senting the 45th Senatorial Dis
trict, was commended this week
for his attendance and voting re
cord during the 1968 General
Assembly. A letter from the
Secretary of the Senate stated
that the records in the Secre
tary’s Office which are incorpor
ated in the Senate Journal show
that Senator Pennington failed to
vote on the final passage of only
two general resolutions and no
bills. Hie two resolutions men
tioned were only formalities with
no dissenting votes on one and
only two dissenting votes on the
other. Referring to roll call
votes, the letter went on to
state they had searched the re
cords very carefully and found
the above mentioned resolutions
were the only bills or resolu
tions of a general nature for
which Senator Pennington was not
present voting either in the af
firmative or negative.
This record was particularly
outstanding in view of the fact
Senator Pennington is Chairman
of the Senate Agriculture and
Natural Resources Committee
which considered more bills than
any committee other than Rules
prior to their appearance on the
daily calendars presided over
daily meetings of this committee
to help insure the smooth flow
of legislation throughout the Ses
sion.
into the home and onto the mo
vie screen.
If the pendulum swings in its
theoretical cycles, as students
of culture have been insisting
through the ages that it does,
it must be about time for that
valid old stand-by of criticism
to raise its battered head and
reassert itself: Was it, after
all, worth doing?
A nationwide poll conducted
by Farm Journal indicates that
nine out of ten farmers feel that
they should join farm bargaining
associations to obtain better
prices from processors and buy
ers.
Farmers throughout the coun
try also feel that Congress should
create a legislative climate that
would allow them to use bar
gaining power on their own be
half.
The poll further indicates that
nearly 70 per cent of the farm
ers favor holding farm products
off the market to try to win
higher prices and get processors
to sign long-term contracts.
Over 60 per cent opposed a
plan whereby the government
would certify farm bargaining as
sociations and require proces
sors and handlers to bargain with
them. Os those polled, 67 per
cent voted against having farm
prices and production determined
by a government board made up
of farm, processor, and con
sumer representatives.
Nearly eight out of 10 op
posed the present law which
authorizes the Secretary of .Agri
culture to void farm bargaining
agreements if the government
feels that they unduly enhance
prices.
An editorial in the May issue
of Farm Journal has interpreted
the survey results to mean that
the nation’s farmers favor bar
gaining that includes seven pro
cedures:
(1) Programs would be farmer
inspired instead of arising from
political compromises in Con
gress;
I Lavm Mm
Savs..
Memory is one of the most
precious attributes with which
God endowed the human race.
On the other hand it can be
also the greatest curse to which
man is subject; It is so im
portant that it is refered to in
the Bible 259 times, not to men
tion the parallel expression
"forget-not”.
What a happy possibility we
enjoy in being able to recall
the many happy, joyful exper
iences, that have brightened our
lives!
On the contrary how bitter
the remembrances of the lost
opportunities for a helpful word
or deed!
Before I was seven years old,
because of unkind words to my
little brother, my mother taught
♦ JPh "Judwt |
♦ MRS. ROBERT I. BURALL j
TENTH DISTRICT DIR. I
♦ GEORGIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS 1
| AND TEACHERS ]
It is time to start making plans
to attend the 46th Annual PTA
Summer Institute in Athens, June
11-13, 1968.
This is the time and the place
to acquire the knowledge and
guidance you will need for a pro
ductive PTA next school year.
Complacency must go!! We
can no longer afford to stand
still and ignore the forward
movement taking place today. We
need to Progress with this ever
| Siueißij |
Rev. James A. Brown
Calvary Baptist Church
Porterdale, Georgia
"God looks at our attitude as
well as at our work.”
"Waiting upon the Lord is
never wasted time.”
“Am I giving prayer a place
of importance in my life?”
A TIME
FORH
INITIATIVE
Soil
Stewardship
Week
May 19-26,1968
Thursday, May 2, 1968
FARMERS FAVOR |
BARGAINING
By: Leo S. Mallard
(2) Plans would be flexible so
that if a program failed farmers
could vote it out quickly;
(3) Farm prices and income
would come from the market;
farmers would rely less on direct
payments from the government;
(4) Farmers would elect their
own commodity representatives
to run their programs;
(5) Farmers, instead of the
government, would decide how
much freedom they would give up
for the gain they hope to achieve;
(6) Program choices that
farmers would vote on would
be more realistic than typical
government-held referendums in
the past;
(7) Farm pricing would be an
exciting, fast-moving affair with
commodities vying with each
other to see who could come up
with the best program.
The results of the survey are
being distributed to members of
Congress, farm organization
leaders, and all presidential can
didates. Farmers hope that
Washington will take note of their
feelings.
For the first time it seems
that the farmers are remarkably
together in their thinking. This
togetherness seems to override
farm organization membership,
commodity, age, income, or sec
tion.
Politicians are relieved that
farmers now want to wrestle
with their own problems for a
while, for farm programs have
long been viewed by politicians
as "nothing but trouble” with
no solutions found that seemed
to relieve the plight of the farm
er.
me a little verse that has re
mained in my mind during all
the years;
"Beware! Beware! of careless
words,
They have a fearful power
And jar upon the spirit’s chords
Through many a weary hour.
Though not designing to give us
pain
Though but at random spoken
Remembrance brings them back
again
The past’s most bitter token.
Oh! Could my prayer indeed by
heard
Might I the past live o’er
I’d guard against a careless word
E’en though I spoke no more!”
changing of time in education.
To keep up with this we need to
seek the required knowledge
needed at Local levels. Your
PTA Summer Institute provides
this knowledge for your leaders
to pass on to you. Their pro
gram will be interesting, and an
informative learning experience
for all who attend. It will en
hance your enthusiasm and ab
ility to enlighten and improve
your own Local Unit.
Since PTA is a continuing en
deavor, I urge the outgoing admin
istration to help the incoming ad
ministration, by passing on their
material, suggestions, and hard
earned experiences that is most
valuable to a new administra
tion. Help them to understand
the importance of our Summer
Institute, Council meetings, your
Tenth District Fall and Spring
Conferences, as well as our Ann
ual PTA Conventions. For these
meetings are where our leaders
keep abreast of what is happen
ing in education and the problems
our children and youth face in this
ever changing world of today.